NOBLE - North Carolina BARD Local
NOBLE (North Carolina BARD Local) is a service similar to BARD but for locally produced digital braille and digital talking books and magazines available for download. Digital talking books and digital braille volumes will be added quarterly as they become available. Please note that all digital talking books available from NOBLE are produced in an alternate format that can only be read on an NLS approved player. Just like BARD, downloaded audio files are zipped and need to be unzipped onto a flash drive to play.
- Digital Talking Books
- Digital Braille
- Magazines
- Podcasts - Listen and Learn about the Library
- DTBM Firmware Update
Digital Talking Books
The following locally produced Digital Talking Books are available:
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, with William McKinney.
Read by John Stein. Reading time approximately 11 hours.
- Download Holy Smoke, DBX01133Mercy Me
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 4 hours 40 minutes.
- Download Mercy Me, DBX01134Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina, the Piedmont
by William R. Trotter.
Read by John Stein. Reading Time approximately 14 hours 30 minutes.
- Download Silk Flags and Cold Steel, DBX01136Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina, the mountains
by William R. Trotter.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 15 hours.
- Download Bushwhackers, DBX01160Shell Game: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery
by Sarah R. Shaber.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 30 minutes.
- Download Shell Game, DBX01161Good Heavens: Part of the Esmeralda Series
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 7 hours.
- Download Good Heavens, DBX01162Land Sakes: Part of the Esmeralda Series
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 45 minutes.
- Download Land Sakes, DBX01163The Bug Funeral: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery
by Sarah R. Shaber.
Read by Marti Miller. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 15 minutes.
- Download The Bug Funeral, DBX01164Beyond the Darkness: A literary journal
Presented by the students of The Governor Morehead School for the Blind, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes student artwork, poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and creative non-fiction.
edited by Linda West Wooten.
Read by Sherrie Zeblisky. Reading Time approximately 1 hour.
- Download Beyond the Darkness, DBX01183Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys across North Carolina
by Scott Mason.
Read by Jeff Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 35 minutes.
- Download Tar Heel Traveler, DBX01195Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook
by Georgann Eubanks.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 14 hours.
- Download Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, DBX01196Cataloochee
by Wayne Caldwell.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 12 hours 15 minutes.
- Download Cataloochee, DBX01197Requiem by Fire
by Wayne Caldwell.
Read by Daniel Wade. Reading Time approximately 11 hours 50 minutes.
- Download Requiem by Fire, DBX01217
Digital Braille Books
The following locally produced Digital Braille Books are available:
Haunted Wilmington...and the Cape Fear Coast
by Brooks Newton Preik.
Length one volume.
- Download Haunted Wilmington, BRX02132More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women
by Scotti Kent
Length two volumes.
- Download More Than Petticoats, volume 1, BRX02133
- Download More Than Petticoats, volume 2, BRX02133
Magazines
The current edition of each of the following locally produced North Carolina Magazines is available:
Carolina Country
Living Power
North Carolina Historical Review
Our State
Tar Heel Talk
Wildlife in North Carolina
Podcasts
Listen and Learn about the Library
A program produced with Triangle Radio Reading Service and grant funded by the Friends of the Library
Listen to or Download Listen and Learn about the Library
DTBM Firmware Update
Get the latest firmware for your digital talking book player from http://www.loc.gov/nls/DTBM/index.html
